Environmental economics

This book provides a detailed and comparative assessment of the humanitarian responses to major disasters in Asia over the past two decades.

Universities have a key role to play in contributing to environmental development and combating climate change.

Over the last three decades, wine economics has emerged as a growing field within agricultural economics, but also in other fields such as finance, trade, growth, environmental economics and industrial organization.

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The Arctic region contains large amounts of natural resources considered necessary to sustain global economic growth, so it is unsurprising that it is increasingly susceptible to political, economic, environmental, and even military conflicts.

The way in which energy is governed in China is driving its rising level of carbon dioxide emissions.

Encouraged by the emergence and early impact of social innovators on the African Continent, but frustrated by the slow pace of large scale change, this book is focused on filling the knowledge gap for those tackling Africa's serious social problems.

Through a mixture of innovation and regulation, a future is being mapped out free of carbon and pollutants.

Rigorous exploration of the Trump administration''s pro-fossil fuel policy and its lasting impact on public health, the economy, and the environment.

Die Enquete-Kommission "Schutz des Menschen und der Umwelt" hat mit den ehrgeizigen Zielen, die Flächenausweisung bis 2010 auf 10 v.

This book provides an evaluation of the science and policy debates on climate change and offers a reframing of the challenges they pose, as understood by key international experts and players in the field.

Russia and America (1987) examines the divergence between two countries organised on diametrically opposed economic principles - one centrally-planned, state-dominated, the other a highly decentralised market economy, free from significant government intervention.

Biomass Supply Chains for Bioenergy and Biorefining highlights the emergence of energy generation through the use of biomass and the ways it is becoming more widely used.

Evaluates and compares risk regulation and safety management for offshore oil and gas operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Norway and Australia.

We have undertaken this volume in the belief that there is now sufficient research completed on environmental risk to justify a retrospective assessment of what is known.

This latest Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC will again form the standard reference for all those concerned with climate change and its consequences.

There are two questions often asked of risk communication: what has been learned from past work, and what is needed to push the field forward?

Originally published in 1974 Campaigning for the Environment addresses the issue of the environmental lobby.

The earth, our home, is in crisis.

ISC 2022 is dedicated to the Niti Aayog policies to promote sustainability through exchange of ideas emerging out of the academia.

A New World-System: From Chaos to Sustainability examines the present crisis in the social and ecological environment that is producing profound, potentially catastrophic challenges to the planet and humanity and outlines a process for moving forward to address these critical issues.

Sustaining and strengthening local livelihoods is one of the most fundamental challenges faced by post-conflict countries.

Originally published in 1964 and revised in 1971.

This book uses electricity-sector reforms to question some of the preconceived ideas concerning the MENA region and to provide a broader analysis of related political economy issues.

' Measuring the sustainability of development is crucial to achieving it, and is one of the most actively studied issues in the area.

Climate change represents the most important environmental challenge of our time.

This book is a timely overview of the various aspects of consumer perception related to food.

Drawing on historical and current data, this thought-provoking book summarises the pathways to the present predicament and maps out strategies to develop financial and economic systems for a sustainable world.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book analyses the links between climate change adaptation, resilience and the impacts of hazards.

During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and eff orts to achieve low carbon economies.

Although tackling the causes of climate change through mitigation is necessary, it is also essential to examine the effect of climate change and what international cooperation can take place to ensure global adaptation measures.

This compendium includes a wide range of topics, from energy science and technology, development and utilization of resources to sustainable ecological development.

Transport is very important for the economy and our welfare.

This volume uses historical epistemology in order to address several topics in the history of economic thought, with special emphasis on ecological economics, environmental metaphors of scarcity, and mathematical ecology.

The science is clear: climate change is a fact and the probability is extremely high that it has been caused by humans.

Chitin is the second most abundant natural polymer in the world after cellulose, mainly derived from the food waste of shrimp and crabs.

This title was first published in 2003.

Fresh water has become scarce and will become even more so in the coming years, as continued population growth places ever greater demands on the supply of fresh water.

Substitution has long been a common remedy for materials shortages.

Does money blur perspectives for a better life?

The Libyan Oil Industry (1980) gives a narrative and analysis of the economic consequences of the discovery and production of oil in Libya, from the searches for oil by the major oil companies to the establishment of Libya as one of the main exporters in the world.

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Exactly 25 years ago on a warm autumn afternoon a young ecologist walked slowly through a tiny oak wood, and perched on a log to reflect.

The book includes seventeen excellent researched and documented papers that reflect the diversity of thought, ideas and experiences related to IWRM.

Crow and Albright outline if, what, and when communities learn from disasters to make them more resilient to future shocks.